[Fontconfig] fontconfig: Branch 'master' - 23 commits

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Ok, with your test I see consistent crashes with cache cleanup.  Working on
it.  Is that the one you are seeing?

On 13-01-07 08:44 AM, Raimund Steger wrote:
> On Mon, January 7, 2013 12:37, Raimund Steger wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, January 7, 2013 04:43, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>> On 13-01-06 09:15 AM, Raimund Steger wrote:
>>>> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure whether this is a problem for the way fontconfig uses
>>>>> these
>>>> operations. So far I've not been able to attribute any coredumps to
>>>> _this_
>>>> circumstance. This would need attention from an expert on the subject
>>>> (which
>>>> I'm not).
>>>
>>> So, did the pthread fixes make the crashes to go away or are you still
>>> seeing
>>> some?
>>
>> Unfortunately, I still see crashes. While I think the aforementioned
>> compiler flags for Sun Studio are still necessary to enable threadsafe
>> behavior of the standard library (well but maybe Akira can have a word
>> where to put them...), this might not have been the main problem after
>> all. I'll see if I can implement a shorter test snippet and send it in,
>> maybe it's just my buggy test program :-)
> 
> I've attached a program now which is rather simple but produces pretty
> reproducible coredumps on a test machine here (Sun M5000 w/ 12 CPUs).
> 
> Maybe you could first check whether the test program isn't complete
> garbage...
> 
> Raimund
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